Red Dog Mine
RSSRed Dog Mine is an open-pit zinc and lead mine in the De Long Mountains of Alaska's Northwest Arctic Borough. Teck Resources operates it under a royalty agreement with NANA Regional Corporation, trucking ore to port near Kivalina.
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State energy board votes on nearly $5 million solar loan for Red Dog Mine
The Alaska Energy Authority board votes Thursday on a state loan of nearly $5 million for a solar and battery project at Red Dog Mine, after the agency's loan committee unanimously approved it and staff recommended the board do the same.
The loan would cover part of the roughly $35 million project, an 8.8-megawatt solar array and battery at the zinc mine in the Northwest Arctic Borough. Tugliq Red Dog1 LLC, a subsidiary of Canadian company Tugliq Energy Corp., would own it and sell all of its power to mine operator Teck Alaska. Those sales would repay the loan, according to the loan memo in the board packet.
The deal isn't done even if the board approves it. Before the loan can close, Tugliq has to line up the rest of the project's money, formally sign its power contract with Teck and get its parent company to guarantee the loan.
Red Dog runs on diesel, and in summer Teck's generators have to cut power to other parts of the mine so they can supply the mill, Teck told the state. Agency staff wrote that the solar project would give Teck room to ease those cuts, burn less diesel and lower workers' exposure to airborne particulates.
The project is "in no way intended to displace all or a majority" of the mine's diesel power, staff wrote. As Alaska News reported Oct. 29, it would supply about 5% of the mine's power through 2031, when its current ore is expected to run out, but about 90% of the site's needs if the mine closes.
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EPA proposes $21,618 penalty over Red Dog Mine spill into Red Dog Creek
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Red Dog is one approval away from a new corporate owner
Teck Resources, owner of the Red Dog zinc mine near Kivalina, awaits one final regulatory approval before its merger with Anglo American closes, likely between September 2026 and March 2027.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
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The state gave Red Dog another decade of eased water limits as the mine looks to run longer
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About Red Dog Mine
Red Dog Mine is an open-pit zinc and lead mine in the De Long Mountains of the Northwest Arctic Borough. Teck Resources operates it under a royalty agreement with NANA Regional Corporation, and ore is trucked along a haul road to a port near Kivalina.
The mine is one of the world's richest zinc deposits, and the central question about it is how long it can keep running as its main pit nears depletion. Other recurring subjects are its wastewater permits and the effect of thawing permafrost on water management, spills into Red Dog Creek, its reliance on diesel for power, and changes in its corporate ownership.
Red Dog's royalties flow to NANA Regional Corporation, and the mine is the model often cited when other Native corporations weigh proposed mines such as Donlin. The state development bank AIDEA takes up the mine alongside other large projects such as the Ambler Road.